KS1 & KS2 music curriculum

In this unit, we explicitly name songs and listening examples that use the major or minor key. From their experience of hearing and singing previous major, minor and pentatonic music, pupils are able to identify the tonality. We build on prior skills of playing drone and ostinato alongside a song with more complex repeated patterns. Pupils will learn to move their ostinato from the major key to the minor key. The first five notes of the major and minor keys will be consolidated in later 'Compose and Create' units.

1. Major and minor tonality folk songs
2. Folk songs and the major pentachord
3. Folk songs and the minor pentachord
4. Building texture with a melodic ostinato
5. Building texture with a minor accompaniment
6. Layering accompaniments under major and minor folk songs